Argumentative Essay: Legalizing Medicinal Marijuana
Legalizing Medicinal Marijuana Use
It’s no secret that the heavy debate over marijuana use and it’s legalization has long troubled many Americans, either just looking for the ability to ingest their preferred relaxer the same way others drink alcohol after a tiring day, or because of legitimate medical concerns. Of course, in a federal decision big and prolific enough to match Prohibition, there are many underlying political aspects that have to be taken into account. In current times, only a select few of the 50 states have moved to lift the ban on medicinal use, though the federal ban is still in place; long before the United States was even conceived, however, many other cultures had already begun to use the plant for it’s many different …show more content…
In September of 2012, the medical community released an article detailing how marijuana actually stops aggressive cancers from metastasizing, as well as even being able to return the affected cells back to their original states. According to Robin Wilkey, scientists have found that CBD, a non-toxic and non-psychoactive chemical compound found in marijuana, “can actually turn off the ID1 gene, a gene that promotes cancer growth, prevalent in many aggressive cancers” (Wilkey). Also, as previously stated, it is a non-psychoactive component and the patient would not experience the feelings associated with being high, like they would if administering THC (Chaboya-Hembree). With this property of the plant only recently coming to light, doctors and scientists alike have high hopes that marijuana may actually possess many medical properties and secrets that have yet to be uncovered. If marijuana were legalized for medical use it would allow scientists to acquire samples more easily and readily in order to run tests and attempt to find more inherit medical properties. The 2012 study showed evidence to support the idea that marijuana is able to medically treat certain types of one of the worst diseases on Earth. Therefore, from a strictly medical perspective, if marijuana were legalized it would be both easier and safer to treat many Americans for many different
It’s no secret that the heavy debate over marijuana use and it’s legalization has long troubled many Americans, either just looking for the ability to ingest their preferred relaxer the same way others drink alcohol after a tiring day, or because of legitimate medical concerns. Of course, in a federal decision big and prolific enough to match Prohibition, there are many underlying political aspects that have to be taken into account. In current times, only a select few of the 50 states have moved to lift the ban on medicinal use, though the federal ban is still in place; long before the United States was even conceived, however, many other cultures had already begun to use the plant for it’s many different …show more content…
In September of 2012, the medical community released an article detailing how marijuana actually stops aggressive cancers from metastasizing, as well as even being able to return the affected cells back to their original states. According to Robin Wilkey, scientists have found that CBD, a non-toxic and non-psychoactive chemical compound found in marijuana, “can actually turn off the ID1 gene, a gene that promotes cancer growth, prevalent in many aggressive cancers” (Wilkey). Also, as previously stated, it is a non-psychoactive component and the patient would not experience the feelings associated with being high, like they would if administering THC (Chaboya-Hembree). With this property of the plant only recently coming to light, doctors and scientists alike have high hopes that marijuana may actually possess many medical properties and secrets that have yet to be uncovered. If marijuana were legalized for medical use it would allow scientists to acquire samples more easily and readily in order to run tests and attempt to find more inherit medical properties. The 2012 study showed evidence to support the idea that marijuana is able to medically treat certain types of one of the worst diseases on Earth. Therefore, from a strictly medical perspective, if marijuana were legalized it would be both easier and safer to treat many Americans for many different